Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming services. Matt has more than 20 years of experience testing and reviewing laptops. He has worked for CNET in New York and ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. There has never been a better selection of laptops with long-lasting batteries than in 2025. For decades, everyone knew that a laptop and its ...

The last thing you want is to spend several hundred dollars or even over $1,000 on a laptop and have to get a new one less ...

Higher watt-hour (Wh) batteries generally offer longer battery life. Smaller, lower-resolution screens consume less power than larger, high-resolution displays. Non-touch displays and avoiding ...

There’s nothing more heart-stopping than frantically searching for the nearest outlet while your laptop verges on dying. Want to avoid such panic-inducing scenarios? You’re going to need a ...

Laptops powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon processors are clocking in at about 20 hours of battery life. Ditto for notebooks powered by Intel’s “Lunar Lake” chip. But isn’t that number way, way more than ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Buying a notebook computer can be a tricky proposition. The conventional wisdom has long been that you need to spend at least $600 to $700 to ...

When the everyday grind meets a craving for simplicity, the Apple MacBook Air laptops slip in, never demanding attention but always delivering. Apple hasn’t messed with success here. They’ve kept it ...